Jade's pages, written around 2000

Jade is a young woman of 17 turns, standing a mere 5'2", but with long, slender limbs and a willowy frame. She has very pale skin, almost white, and doesn't tan well. Her hair is voluminous black, going to her waist and often tied back. Her eyes are jade green. Her face is very pretty, with small lips and even, smart eyes.

Her personality is that of a devoted friend. If she believes in something she will follow it to the end, and she is rarely seen in the company of folk who decieve or jest overly much. That is not to say she doesn't like jokes, but she rarely finds practical jokes funny in the slightest. Jade will defend the right, no matter the cost.

Jade's skills are all set up for defending a Hold or Weyr, with physical training and hunting being prime. She is skilled at target practice, as well as hand holds and hand to hand combat. She has a sharp eye for details, and is a very strong judge of character. She and Triia are very close.

It's been said, Jade belongs on a Green or perhaps a Blue dragon, her follower type personality aids well in wing moves and working thread fall.

"I knew it!" Jade called out, seeing a friend of hers from Dawnlight. "I knew you'd be here at Gallimim sooner or later!"

Taiver nearly leapt out of her skin seeing her old friend. "You've gotten paler, girlfriend!" Taiver said.

"And you've gotten darker!" Jade laughed.

"I thought Triia might be here too?" The dark and hugely built woman asked the raven haired Jade.

"I did too... Perhaps another clutch. I think she's enjoying the down time. The Protectorate is doing well and she's got the beasts to tend to... And us sometimes."

Jade looked around and didn't see anyone else coming. "Do you want to sneak a peek at the eggs?" She asked, quietly and with a smile widely on her pale face.

"You think that the queen would mind?"

"Well, she ought to meet us anyway, right?" Jade replied, happily skipping into the cavern where the eggs were hardening.

Moments later, before Taiver got a chance to enter the weyr, Jade came sprinting out, and was followed by an angry bellowing.

"I guess that means she would mind, doesn't it?" Taiver laughed, and the pair went to find weyrs close to one another for when their soon-to-impress dragons would be large enough to live alone.

It wasn't soon after, when things had settled a bit and the dragons had allowed the candidates to actually walk around the eggs, when Jade and Taiver were alerted to the rocking and motion of the eggs!

"They're hatching!" Called out the weyrling master. "Come soon! Grab your robes!"

Jade did as she was instructed, at a rapid clip! She ran to the sands, passing from foot to foot even with the sandals she had on, her feet could feel the pressing heat below.

"Look at them," she whispered to Taiver, who gulped and nodded herself!

Then, the eggs began to hatch! A few of them did so right away, but none of them were dragons for either young woman.

(original hatching message was generated with madlib style and do not have the correct parent names, I've reinterpreted it after but posted here)
HAPPY IMPRESSION

The small stands on the hatching grounds of Gallmim Weyr were packed with people. Aeserath, the Queen Gold of the Weyr, grumbled and flicked her nose. Her eyes whirled agitatedly. Her mate Samoth was perched atop a sands, surveying the situation. The women candidates were arrayed in a loose circle around a single large gold-tinted egg, fidgeting with anxiety. Similarly were the males and females gathered about the rest of Aeserath's clutch, shells and shards uneasily at the impending event. The buzzing crowd was suddenly silenced by Imogen. 'running! They are starting to hatch! Shhh! One egg started rocking to and fro, followed by the golden egg, then many others in the main clutch. One candidate, Jade, stared intently at the rocking eggs near her. An egg on the opposite side of the clutch suddenly cracked, and a bronze dragon struggled to free himself of the clinging egg shell. He waved his wings. A young orange-eyed boy began smiling and flinginging. He ran over and hugged him fervently. By this time, many other hatchlings had burst from their eggs and were catch about and impressing. A blue dragon stumbled toward Jade, and she was suddenly filled with anxiety. Is this who I will impress? she wondered. Yet she felt nothing in her head. The dragon got closer and closer, and she braced herself to receive the creature. Just as the little blue came up to her, he veered around her and she heard a delighted exclamation behind her. Jade felt sadness. Jadefelt an itch on her knee and she swatted at it absently. Don't you want me??? came a forlorn voice in her head and she looked down at her feet and beheld a most beautiful greendragon. My name is Lravaath! She hugged her new partner affectionately, and together they happly proceeded from the sands. (end)

Then, carefully, almost reluctantly (gar! Bad pun!) a green of soft hue crept from her shell. She kicked away the last of it off her flowing tail, and spread her wings gently not willing to flap them as flamboyantly as others who had already started to dry. The green turned her head at the girls, looking over all of them with a calm, precise air. She passed by most of them, even giving a little snort of confusion over Taiver.

Then her golden-orange eyes went to Jade's appropriately green eyes, and the dragon's turned to approximate them!

You are for me. My name is Lravaath. I am hungry but if you wish to watch my brothers and sisters impress, I will be happy to remain here for a while. I am curious about your friend here...

The dragon spoke in a quiet, whispery but smooth voice in Jade's mind.

The pale-skinned raven-haired young woman suddenly did a buggy eyed double take!

"You -- mean -- and I -- we -- OOOOOH!!" She cried, suddenly out of her mind with glee and with the completion that Lravaath gave her.

They did indeed remain on the sands, off the main area, and in the cooler side, to watch Taiver!

If you think for a moment that I'm going to do that, you're crazy!

"I am not crazy, Lrav, every dragon does it."

Except me! I'm not going to! It's disgusting!

"Lravaath, I am SO tired of cleaning out this weyr. Your behind has got to learn to between, so I don't have to do this any more!" Jade stamped the end of the mucking shovel onto the weyr's stone floor. It made a sloppy noise, mostly due to the... rather large pile of dragon dung near it.

But ... between is cold. And it is scary.

"Would you rather be surrounded by your own poop than learn to go between!?" Jade was having a rather red-faced day... This dragon had chosen not to become 'trained' on the idea that her excrement must go between. It was almost as if she were clinging on to her hatchling days.

I will do it, Jade, but only if you promise to tell me where it goes.

"What?"

Where it goes! Is between one big huge dragon dung heap? I mean... If it is as you say, and all the dragons 'go' there... ICK! I don't want to! I won't!

Jade sighed heavily. It was going to be a very very long summer.

(( note that they don't really go poop between because for god's sake there would be no mass left on Pern if dragons took but didn't give back))

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